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There is a sacredness in tears.
They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.
They are messengers of overwhelming grief ...
and unspeakable love.
- Washington Irving
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Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
That sense of sacredness,
that thinking in generations,
must begin with reverence for this earth.
- Paul Tsongas
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Tears and laughter cleanse the heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei
Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart,
don't know how to laugh either
- Golda Meir
I honor you, Hero, for you do not play to the crowd.
You play to your own soul.
An audience of one fills the house with its appreciation and applause.
Others follow you, and may attempt to emulate you,
but that is not why you are a hero.
Fame may smile upon you, or it may not.
The world may cheer your name, or you may be the unknown warrior
who rescued comrades in battle,
or taught a young girl how to shed tears of joy.
Whatever you did, you did not do for fame.
If you had, you would not be a Hero.
You are a Hero for your bold courageous inspired action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The soul would have no rainbow,
Had the eyes no tears.
- John Vance Cheney
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life,
your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Hate destroys, Love builds.
Hate tears down, Love renews and creates.
Hatred holds no hope for the future.
Love creates Today as its own better future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Regrets are the tears of choices not made
and of good deeds left undone.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
- Victor Hugo
When we lose one we love,
our bitterest tears are called forth
by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
- Maurice Maeterlinck
There is a time to cry for those we have lost,
and there is a time to wipe the tears and smile again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, - I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Trust in the Light.
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
Open yourself to the Light!
Hold back nothing,
Trust in the Light.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light
is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Well, I don't know what will happen now.
We've got some difficult days ahead.
But it doesn't matter with me now.
Because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I don't mind. Like any man,
I would like to live a long life.
Longevity has its place.
But I'm not concerned about that now.
I just want to do God's will.
And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain.
And I've looked over.
And I've seen the promised land.
I may not get there with you.
But I want you to know tonight, that we,
as a people, will get to the promised land.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
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